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package com.bff.gaia.unified.sdk.extensions.kryo;



import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo;

import com.bff.gaia.unified.sdk.annotations.Experimental;



import java.io.Serializable;



/**

 * Interface to be implemented by clients to register their classes with {@link Kryo}.

 *

 * <p>{@link KryoRegistrar KryoRegistrars} implementations have to be stateless and {@link

 * Serializable}.

 */

@Experimental

public interface KryoRegistrar extends Serializable {



  /**

   * Implementations should call variants of {@link Kryo#register(Class)} to register custom classes

   * with given {@link Kryo} instance. It should be stateless and resulting in the same type

   * registrations (including order of registration) every time it is called.

   *

   * @param kryo {@link Kryo} instance to be used for type registration

   */

  void registerClasses(Kryo kryo);

}